White meat

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The breast portion of poultry. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    meat carved from the breast of a fowl wordnet
  3. 3
    Meats whose color, either before or after cooking, is considered white as opposed to red, including poultry, seafood, and in some uses, even pork. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    Dairy produce (occasionally including eggs). countable, historical, uncountable

    "[W]hite meates, as milk, butter ⁊ chéeſe, which were woont to be accoũted of as one of the chiefe ſtayes thorowout the Iſland, are now reputed as foode appertinent only to the inferiour ſoꝛt, […]"

Etymology

From Middle English whyte mete, wyttemet, equivalent to white + meat.

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